An Allegory: George and Chip

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Tuesday October 09, 2007 · 4:32 AM PDT

2007/10/09 · 04:32

George was drunk and raging at a friend about the chaos in the world around him. His friend suggested he take a little time to relax, perhaps go watch his son play sports. George grumbled and wandered out of the bar into the bright light of the day. Taking the advice he drove to his son’s soccer game and caught the tail end. His son, surprised to see his father, pushed hard to show his strength and resolve – driving the ball towards the goal, he scores the winning point. But walking off the field it is clear he had been clipped and he is limping.

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Wednesday June 27, 2007 · 9:55 AM PDT

2007/06/27 · 09:55

In response to Sen. Luger's thoughtful consideration of our situation in Iraq: Beyond Politics on Iraq, Michael Gerson replies with a tirade against the democrats: An Exit to Disaster. While this is not at all surprising coming from a member of the White House Iraq Group, his quoting of Kissinger shows an astonishing blindness:

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Sunday February 11, 2007 · 10:19 AM PST

2007/02/11 · 10:19

I was reading articles about the supposed Iran ties to Iraqi insurgents and I was wishing that there was some kind of database of reporters that you could go to to check their reliability from the history of their own writings. In a sense it could be like a Wiki where people add categorization and commentary. It is like a "how good a reporter is this reporter" database? I thought that it might be nice to have a star rating for reporters but that is a little tricky - how do you do this objectively. In the blog era it seems that such a database would allow one to weed out bad reporting by disregarding known idiots. It would also be a way to debunk these people in the media by holding them accountable to their own past. Finally, it would be useful as a reference to people like me who simply want to check - it this reporter a bozo or the real thing.

Does such a thing exist? Any other suggestions about how one might structure it.

Conservative Politicians Don't Want to Overturn Roe-Wade?

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Friday October 07, 2005 · 10:26 AM PDT

2005/10/07 · 10:26

The furor over Harriet Miers leads one to wonder what is going on. There have been many theories

Bush is nominating a business conservative
Bush is nominating a cronie
Bush wanted to avoid a confirmation fight

Conservatives are showing concern and dismay over not getting one of their hardliners. I would like to add another theory

"Conservative Politicians do not want Roe-Wade overturned"

Imagine if Roe-Wade were overtuned. Read More

Blogpower - time to organize boycotts?

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Thursday November 11, 2004 · 10:40 PM PST

2004/11/11 · 22:40

Many right wing businesses work in a two-faced manner - catering to the mainstream and using profits to support marginal right-wing causes. The recent Frank Rich article captures this phenomenon quite succinctly. We, as the mainstream, are complicit if we remain ignorant of this practice and choose to support this kind of exploitation. In the coming years it will be important for us to use our economic power to choke off those who seek to use our dollars to limit our freedoms. Read More

Solace and hope from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 9:53 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 09:53

I must admit to being confused about the state of mind in our times. How can a man like Bush be the man America wants? And yet, here he is on the verge of victory - a victory I hope will not come. It is troubling to see our country so apparently confused about what it is about and who its friends are and where it should go. In these troubled times I have found some solace in the following essay by Emerson - given in the early part of the 1800's. Please excuse his male bias if you can - I think his words are purer then the form; those of his time.
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Pentagon Briefing - Why not ask the obvious?

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Friday October 29, 2004 · 10:14 AM PDT

2004/10/29 · 10:14

At the recent Pentagon briefing our puppy dog press failed to ask the obvious question - was there a plan to secure dangerous explosives or not? Instead the trotted out and tried to spin an honest Major who was simply looking for munitions that might endanger their troops and good stuff to use to blow up what was captured. He was not responsible to doing an exhaustive search for documented dangerous explosives and destroy them. Read More

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An Allegory: George and Chip

Gerson's "An Exit to Disaster"

Reporter Database - does one exist?

Conservative Politicians Don't Want to Overturn Roe-Wade?

Blogpower - time to organize boycotts?

Solace and hope from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pentagon Briefing - Why not ask the obvious?